Link to the Show / Show Notes Rebecca MacKinnon is a co-founder of Global Voices, and a recovering TV reporter-turned blogger. Global Voices is a non-profit citizens' media sponsored by Berkman Center for Internet and Society of Harvard University. Currently, Global Voices averages about 10,000 visitors a day from all over the world.
Rebecca became interested in blogging about two years ago, when she first read Joi Ito's blog . Subsequently, while on a sabbatical at Harvard University Rebecca started her first blogging project called North Korea Zone .
Prior to entering the world of blogging, Rebecca worked at CNN for 12 years, and served as bureau chief at both Tokyo and Beijing.
I met with Rebecca in January, 2006, when she was in New York. In this podcast Rebecca shares with us on what it was like to spend her formative years in Asia, and how she came to develop an interest in covering international news. Disappointed with the way in which international news was being covered, Rebecca turned to blogging, where she finds that contributors are optimistic, enthusiastic, and want to listen to the on-going global coversations.
Disclosure: I am a Global Voices contributor.
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